Carline



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P. E. FINGER CARLINE Filed oct. 26.

Patented Dec. 2, 1924.

PAUL E. FINGER, 0F KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANI, :ASSIGNOR TO I. H. MURPHY COMPANY, 0F PARNASSIT S, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATON OF PENNSYLVANIA.

CARLINE.

Application led October 26, 1921. Serial No. 510,478.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL E. FINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Kensington, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful lmprovements in Carlines, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to improvements in freightcars and more particularly to the construction of the carlines that form a part of the car frame to support the roof.

In service the superstructure or upper frame of a freight car is not only subjected to longitudinal strains -as in buiiing and in draft, but also to torsional and twisting strains in travel and this torsional movement is called weaving. It is an object of this invention to construct a carline which extends from side plate to side plate for supporting the car roof between the side plates that will embody the principle of the truss and will provide a carline that is reinforced to resist both longitudinal and torsional strains and stresses it encounters in service. It is another object to form a carline from commercial angle iron that is simple in construction, readily assembled and easily secured in place on the car.

While the preferred form of this invention is illustrated upon the accompanying sheets of drawings, yet it is to be under-` stood that minor detail changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a portion of the roof of a freight car, with parts broken away, `to which this improved carline has been applied.

Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section taken on the line Q--2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a view in cross section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the embodiment of this invention as illustrated 1-1 are the side plates. 2 the roof and 3-3 the side sheathingv of the car, all Lof which are of customary construction. The `improved carline is formed with two members 4 and 5 of commercial angle iron arranged with the horizontal flanges extending toward each other so that the vertical {iange of each pair of ends of the members may be bent away from each other to engage the inner side of the side plates with their horizontal flanges at the ends resting on the top of the respective side plates and the ends of the carlines are `secured both lhorizontally and vertically to the side plates preferably by bolts passing through the flanges and the side plate. One member 4 extends from side plate to side plate in a plane at right angles to the horizontal center line of the car and is of curved or angular outline following the contour of the roof it supports or is constructed with horizontal portions at the ridge and adjacent the side plates, as shown, for supportingl purlins 6 and ridge 7 for the support of the roof in straight lines from the center of the ridge to the side plates on each side thereof. The other member 5 lies entirely in the same horizontal plane with the top of the side plates and has a portion 8 at the center of the car for an equal distance on each side thereof lying` under the other member 4 with the vertical flange of this portion lying in a plane parallel to the vertical flange of the upper member. The portions 9 and l() on each side of this underlying portion 8 are bent away from the plane of the upper member 4 extending on the same side lthereof to engage and rest on the side plates at equal distances from the ends of the member 4. In this construction the horizontal flange of 5 is directly below the like flange of 4 at the center of the car and the horizontal flange of the lower member is secured` to the vertical fiange of the upper member by an angle plate 11 preferably by rivets passing through the plate and the respective flanges.

This carline, therefore, presents a construction in which one member is arched or of angular formation in one plane secured at its ends to the side plates and is rigidly secured to the other member arched or of angular formation lying in a plane at right angles to the first plane and also with its ends secured to the side plates so that one member reinforces the other after the manner of a truss to resist both horizontal and. torsional strains or stresses, with the ends of the member secured to the inner sides of the side plates and reinforced for supporting a load on the roof with the ends resting also on the top of the side plates.

hat I claim is:

1. A carline composed of two arched members lying in di'erent respective planes,

veach member yprovided at itsv Vend with a bent portion adapted to engage both angular surfaces of the side plate.

2. A carline composed of' two arehed members lying in planes at right angles to each other, and each member having bent ends adapted to rest on'the tops and engage the inner sides of the side plates of the car.

3. A carline composed of two arched flanged members lying in planes at right angles to each other, means securing the members rigidly to each other at the center of the car.' and each member having bent Vends provided to rest on the tops and engage 5 A'the' innersides of theside plates of the ear.

4. A rcarl'i'ne composed of two arched members lying in planes at right angles to each other formed of angle viron lwith the horizontal anges extending toward each other, and having ends adapted to rest on the tops and engage the inner sides olf the side plates of the car.

5. A carline composed of two arched members lying in planes at right angles to each other formed of angle iron having their horizontal flanges extending towards each other, and having their vertical flanges at their ends bent away from each other and adapted to engage the inner sides oi the side plates of the ear with their horizontal flanges integral with the vertical flanges resting on the top of said side plates, and means at the center of the ear connecting the horizontal flange of the lower member to the vertical flange of the upper 1 member.

PAUL E. FINGER. 

